Waxwings

[rowanwitch]

23 Westhall Road Lowestoft
14 Kingsway East Dundee

[roopower]

Lovely, I wish some would come our way. I was born in Lowestoft, good times.

[rowanwitch]

I will try to keep up with sightings... Watch this space.

[rowanwitch]

Latest sightings
Sightings 21st Dec: 1 near Belvidere Cres (seen by local birder)! - Aberdeen, 25 at UHI Moray Campus - Elgin (Moray), 20+ Sunninghill Hotel/Hay St - Elgin (Moray), 5 on Bath St - Portobello (Lothian)
also fair sized flock Coulby Newham Teeside
Also Lady Amhersts pheasant in Flitwick, maybe an escape but very beautiful bird

[Vagus]

We saw waxwings a number of years ago in a retail park car park in Llandudno, completely out of the blue. I wish they’d come near to us this year, such lovely birds.

[rowanwitch]

Probably around the time Red saw them in Bangor, they worked their way up and down the North Wales coast for ages. I kept missing them on my trips up,once by around 15 minutes.

[rowanwitch]

Waxwings last Sunday in Whitby. One opposite Sainsburys and 20+ Sneaton Castle.

[rowanwitch]

Sightings Christmas Day: 5 at Burnt Hill Way/Kestrel Green - Carlton Colville (Suffolk), 12 at Coulardbank Rd - Lossiemouth (Moray) small flock still at Coulby Newham. Need the wind to come from the North East to drive more over to UK

[maggiebee]

Wow, Dundee address is only about 3 miles from me - hope they come to my garden. Always wanted to see a waxwing but only seen photos.

[rowanwitch]

Worth the trip Maggiebee, I think I'd do 3 miles in a taxi to see them.

[rowanwitch]

No sightings reported recently so my guess is they are staying put. Couple at Castle Douglas most recent. I might have to renew my misguided subscription as there are more sightings listed on there as well as other rarities

[Peter Pedant]

and just in case a wax wing walk up to my door and asks for bird seed

they have a head thingie which is characteristic

that is how you tell them is it?- so anything wearing one is a wax wing? thx serious q

[rowanwitch]

L.p. It's the wax like little blobs on some of the wing feathers

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/waxwing/

[rowanwitch]

L.p. Sorry PP

[melv16]

Got 2 in Sheffield..yaayyy

[rowanwitch]

Brilliant. still hoping they get as far as the West midlands

[Canary42]

I've received a complaint from a Waxwings spokesbird that they're being stalked by an Aber.

I passed it on to the Ornithopolice. ;-)

[Togo]

Still no Waxwings here but we did have a, fairly rare this early in the year, Blackcap on the bird table this morning. I think that there was a hen lurking in the bushes with the reddish brown cap but could not be positive. I would be even rarer if they were paired off already. The only bird that I know of that mates and settles this early in the year is the Heron. No Herons on the feeder.

[rowanwitch]

Blackbirds pair up early too,

Dave and I tried stalking a flock pretty much all over North Wales, little fat git got them on the day I went home.

[rowanwitch]

Sightings 8th Jan: 17 on Dougal Drive - Aviemore (Highland), Hollow Grove Way/A146 jct - Carlton Coville (Suffolk), Blanche St - Ipswich (Suffolk)

[LadyCG]

They're such beautiful creatures.